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Residing in Shanghai during those stir- 
ring July days when the Boxers were de- 
fying Europe and America, destroying the 
Manchurian railway, and holding Pekin iso- 
lated from the rest of the world, I made the 
acquaintance, by chance, of a discharged 
servant of his Excellency, the Viceroy Liu 
Kun-Yih. 

Learning from his conversation that he 
held some novel opinions concerning the 
ultimate purpose of the Boxers' movement, 
I questioned him closely, and discovered 
that he had in his possession a number of 
letters addressed to his former master and 
signed Li Hung Chang, III. Son of Li Hung 
Chang, First Secretary to the Chief of the 
Boxers at Tsi-Nan. 

As the result of much persuasion I suc- 
ceeded in purchasing the documents for the 
sum of fourteen taels. Thinking that they 
might interest or amuse some of my fellow 
countrymen, I have translated them, and 
herewith give them to the printer. 

Fred. Brown. 



1€TT€R KUMB€R I 

To his Excellency Liu Kun- Yih, 

The Viceroy, at Shanghai : 

In obedience to the command of my Hon- 
ored Master, the Chief of the Brotherhood of 
Patriots * in this the birthplace of our noble 
fraternity, I herewith forward to you an out- 
line of the plans matured by the Great Coun- 
cil convened during the past five months in 
the palace of our Chief, on the Western Hill 
of Tsi-Nan. There were present not only 
the leaders of our movement from the North, 
but numerous wise men from the South, and 
from Tibet, and many of the younger men, 
who like myself have travelled through the 
accursed lands from whence come the foreign 
devils. 

All the sages present were of one mind that 
the canons estabHshed by our conference 
should be reduced to writing in compact 
form, and a copy forwarded to every province 
where the human face possesses the true 
natural human color and is neither bleached 
nor black. We ask you, therefore, if your 

* Boxers. 
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heart responds to our own, and if you wish 
to join in the holy task of extinguishing the 
proud and strange, yet perverse, beings who 
now sorely harass our common blood and 
civilization, to bring the truths herein con- 
tained before the wise men and the leaders 
among the young men of the provinces 
Kiang-Su, Kiangsi, and Ngan-hui, that we, 
the Sons of Heaven, may assert our right 
of inheritance to the earth, and stamp out 
utterly the impudent barbarians who, through 
a temporary advantage, gained by unlocking 
unheard-of secrets of nature, have been able 
to cause us such cruel pain and humiliation. 

The primary canon established by the 
Council is this ; 

The earth is not large enough to contain 
two or more humanities. One must occupy 
the earth and the others perish. 

Civilized humanity of human color [yel- 
low *] is engaged in a war to the death with 
the white and black barbarians, and this war 
cannot and shall not cease till the earth is 
cleansed of the last drop of their polluting 
blood, and no alien forms of life remain 
but those of the dumb beasts, who do not 
league together with the hidden forces of 
nature to threaten our supremacy and life. 

Our foes are two : the white skins, or Cau- 
casians, and the black skins, or negroes and 
hybrids. All immediate danger of aggres- 
sion lies with the white skins, whose undue 
intimacy with nature has given them a tem- 
* Words enclosed in brackets are the translator's. 
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porary advantage in war. Their terrible 
passions and warlike instincts will, how- 
ever, render them their own chief destroyers, 
until, as a hopeless minority, they will one 
day be exterminated to the last man by the 
races they have so long abused. 

The black skin possesses more of our own 
characteristics which make for permanent 
conquest, the first of which is fertility or 
power of rapid increase. When the earth is 
well rid of the last white devil, our civiliza- 
tion will still be confronted by countless 
black hordes, trained in all the destructive 
arts of their white schoolmasters, with the 
added wisdom that will come from having 
witnessed the extinction of the proudest and 
fiercest race of conquerors ever known. Pos- 
sessing a fertility equal to our own, their 
extinction may take thousands of years, 
while that of the white man requires only 
centuries. Hence, while our efforts must 
now be directed chiefly against the bleached 
face, we must not fail also to supersede the 
black, wherever possible, looking to the more 
distant battle of the future. 

Lack of coherence among the white skins 
is strategically their weak point, and gives 
us the opportunity which we could not gain 
of ourselves. Instead of forming one great 
nation, as we do, the shortsighted creatures 
look upon their provinces as nations, and 
the hatred with which one province regards 
another is as great as the fierce wrath that 
they display against us. One province, the 

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size of Sze-Chuan, with a population smaller 
by 10,000,000, calls itself Great Britain. 
Another province, with less population and 
area than Hunan and Hupeh, and much less 
fertile, assumes to itself the bombastic name 
of the German Empire. Another province, 
no larger than Kuang-tung, and with about 
an equal number of inhabitants, calls itself 
the French Republic, and so on. 

Be it made known that altogether these 
bleached faces, scattered over the earth, 
come within about 50,000,000 of being as 
numerous as we. Should they be capable 
of acting as one race or nation, and had 
they the foresight to use their temporary 
military advantages, they might disarm us 
entirely on land and sea, confine us within 
strict territorial limits, prevent any further 
extension or growth, seize every point of 
vantage in our empire, and gain the power 
to reduce our number at will, either by the 
brutal methods of war or by more refined 
processes. But such race patriotism on the 
part of the barbarians, who so far have never 
had a higher thought than trade, is not to 
be expected. 

Because of their intrigues with the forces 
of nature, and their century spasm of abnor- 
mal inventiveness, they temporarily possess 
a military advantage over us ; but, warring 
among themselves, and torn by the fierce 
jealousies of their barbaric natures, they can 
be set off, one against the other, until these 
secrets which they have wrung from nature 
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during the single day of their ascendency, 
by one abnormal intellectual spurt, are fully 
appropriated by our more stable and capable 
millions. Then we shall proceed to use 
these subtle powers, stolen by them from 
nature, to extinguish their life, as we would 
a breed of dangerous vermin, and the day of 
their glory shall precede the day of their 
doom. 

The present moment marks the pinnacle 
of the power of the white skin, and every 
day, and year, and decade that we can post- 
pone open conflict means a battle gained, 
as day by day, and year by year, we are get- 
ting possession of the knowledge, and the 
secrets, and the powers that they alone now 
have, and day by day we are increasing in 
numbers and grasping their industrial and 
commercial advantages. While guarding 
our lower orders strictly against the vices 
and superstitions of the bleached faces, we 
shall encourage intimacy between the two 
wherever possible, setting one white prov- 
ince against another, and lending material 
and generous aid to those forces amongst 
them which tend to weaken and decrease 
their numbers. 

We must admit that the barbarians have 
gained the temporary lead of us — why 
heaven has allowed this, we know not — but 
whatever be our feelings, we must turn our 
thoughts to the source of their power, and 
seek for tangible advantage upon every oc- 
casion. We must therefore study, not only 

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the strength, but the weaknesses of our ene- 
mies; and not only their weaknesses, but 
their strength. 

One main defect in the mind of the white 
skin is his superficiality, except in the mat- 
ter of individual money getting. He has 
no race patriotism, but such of his thought 
as is free from schemes for individual en- 
richment is given over to national bombast. 
Their mole-headed statesmen are satisfied if 
they tickle the momentary pride of the mobs 
on whom they are dependent for their tem- 
porary reign. Therefore, the white barba- 
rian, in all his literature and national policies, 
has failed to distinguish between rule and 
occupation, has measured the extent of his 
territory, not by the area inhabited and en- 
joyed by his people, but by the area tem- 
porarily governed by rulers of his choosing. 
It is in this congenital defect of the 
Caucasian brain that our greatest opportu- 
nity lies, for we, the Sons of Heaven, do not 
and never have looked upon the world or 
life from the standpoint of the present mo- 
ment, the present day, or the present cen- 
tury. The future and the past are equally 
real with the present, and who govern or 
occupy the capital and the palaces of a ter- 
ritory matters little in comparison with who 
occupy the cabins and the lands. Even- 
tually the people who increase in numbers, 
who till the fields and increase their life 
from the soil, will from their own numbers 
select their rulers. 

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In the long a7id true way of looking at 
things y it is far better to occupy a territory 
temporarily ruled by others ^ than to tempo- 
rarily rule a territory permanently occupied by 
others. This, the mole-headed statesmen of 
the West cannot grasp. It is beyond the 
range of their intellectual powers, so lately 
were their grandfathers roving the forests of 
Europe as half-naked savages. 

Nothing proves the incapacity and child- 
ishly barbaric smallness of the Caucasian 
brain than the bombastic policy of race sui- 
cide pursued by that nation of pudgy brag- 
garts known as Great Britain. So absurdly 
and pompously vain are these bleached-faced 
little descendants of the savages whom our 
learned men only a few centuries ago saw fit 
to term ^* the distant sea rats who invest the 
frozen waters of North Europia,*' that now 
they have added to their intimacy and power 
over the foul soil from which they spring, 
until burdened with wealth, over-stuffed, 
their abdomens unduly extended, and with 
long black frocks, stovepipe hats, and walk- 
ing sticks, they imagine themselves the gov- 
ernors of the world, and the equals of the 
Chinese. So primitive and crude are their 
mental operations that they cannot distin- 
guish between the intoxication of their child- 
ish pride and the observation of real facts, 
mistaking race suicide for the all-conquer- 
ing advance of national glory. They get 
control of the government of a portion of 
Southwestern Asia which they call India. 
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Do they expand as a nation, extend their 
race, and enlarge the foundations of their 
power ? No ! These upstart barbarians were 
not created trees of a century^ but only insects 
of a day. They have two passions, avarice 
and vanity. Through the labor of the gen- 
tle and industrious Hindoo, they satisfy their 
appetite for gold, and by commanding lowly 
submission, quench their consuming thirst 
for vanity, and imagine they are extending 
their empire, not knowing, fierce babies, 
that they are but erecting their o\\ti tomb, 
and digging their own grave. They found 
this country called India with 100,000,000 
gentle, dreaming inhabitants. Fierce ma- 
rauding traders, pressed by greed for gold, 
they defended the Hindoos from their nat- 
ural enemies and from fierce beasts, and by 
their tricks of machines, drove off, except at 
recurring intervals, what once was their 
destroying god, universal and ever-present 
famine. 

From 100,000,000, these dark-skinned and 
gentle subjects of the white queen have in- 
creased to 300,000,000, and from quiet 
thinkers, engrossed in eternal truths, they are 
armed by their gold-hunting barbarian task- 
masters with all the new devil machines of 
industry and of war, and so it comes to 
pass that the pudgy-grown child of the old 
Anglo-Saxon savage, who has exchanged his 
nakedness for a black frock, and his hair 
for a silk hat, and his sturdy thigh for a 
walking-stick, is, in place of a conqueror, 
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only the temporary organizer and school- 
master of a race which will soon in over- 
whelming numbers exterminate his insignifi- 
cant crew, that for one or two brief centuries 
applies the term '^ Rock of Empire*' to a 
bubble of soap. 

The Briton is not the conqueror of India, 
but only its schoolmaster. China is con- 
quering India, and occupying its land, and 
utilizing its institutions — a land made or- 
derly, and its institutions created, by this 
luckless, suicidal, ill-balanced creature, who 
saves others, but cannot save himself. The 
Englishman, ages after his extinction in the 
world, will be studied by Chinese students, 
both of history and natural history, as the 
supreme paradox of creation. 

The brutal arm of the Englishman, linked 
with his simple and primitive mind, will, 
in its eventual contest with Chinese cunning 
and forethought, compare to the onslaughts 
of a mad bull against the clever matador. 
From Amoy alone, 100,000 Chinese emigrate 
yearly to Singapore, while from the north 
and east, all along the boundary of the so- 
called British India, the Chinese army of 
occupation is on the move, carrying with 
them their wives and children to occupy the 
land forever, while the entire British popu- 
lation of India, both civil and military, is 
not more than 100,000. 

So in Africa ; lust for gold, like the ap- 
petite for honey, inducing bees and insects 
to fertilize the plant from which they ex- 

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ploit sweets, has induced these bleached- 
faces to perform their mission in the world; 
namely, to impregnate the more stable races 
with their genius for exploiting nature, and 
then, like a drone after giving to the queen 
bee the elements of his own vitality, he per- 
ishes. So shall the Caucasian race perish 
at the end of the act for which it was 
created. To impregnate the better and 
higher races with this one element it 
was brought into the world. British rule 
in Africa means order and industry, and the 
construction of systems or skeletons, by 
means of which the prolific black races will 
rapidly multiply. Their thousands are be- 
coming millions, and all the arts and powers 
of their schoolmasters they are acquiring, 
for the insignificant price of eating humble 
pie for one vanishing century. 

When our wisdom-loving ancestors, thou- 
sands of years ago, started to overspread the 
earth, from the highlands of Susiana and the 
fertile plains to the south of the Caspian 
Sea, thanks to our divine origin and the 
acute prophetic knowledge which, as Sons 
of Heaven, we inherited, we did not seek to 
rule over the barbarians who then peopled 
the eastern provinces of our empire ; we did 
not seek self-laudation, nor paper contracts, 
nor vain treaties, nor the occupation of pal- 
aces, nor the rule of foreign slaves, but, 
obeying the divine admonition from heaven, 
we increased in numbers, we reared large 
families in the worship of our ancestors, and 

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taught that to die childless is to die dis- 
graced; we then filled with our own kin- 
dred one province after another, satisfied 
with no rule but that of actual occupation 
by our own flesh and blood. Our domain, 
in consequence, extends over the fairest por- 
tion of the earth, without a single break or 
space occupied by aliens, and from this 
strategic position, the most prolific race on 
earth, with industrial power equalled by 
none, we are extending to the islands of the 
sea, giving temporarily to the white man, in 
order to satisfy his impudent passion of van- 
ity, the possession of the palaces, while we 
occupy the fields ; and already, in this true, 
higher, and eternal method of advance, in 
this truly conquering march, we have planted 
our flag, and blood, and institutions in the 
Philippine Islands, throughout the vast 
plains of Siberia, and over the fair and fer- 
tile fields of California, in Mexico and 
South America, in Africa and Australia. 

The pig-eating Americans think that they 
have acquired the Philippine Islands, be- 
cause they send some soldier boys there to 
die under its scorching sun, and a few vain 
generals to strut up and down the streets in 
their variously colored uniforms ; but, from 
the standpoint of the centuries, China has 
conquered the Philippines and the Sandwich 
Islands, and is irresistibly marching upon 
Western and South America. 

If, for one more century, these ephemeral, 
avaricious, and vainglorious braggarts will 

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continue their worship of gold and bombast, 
every one of their bleached and accursed 
throats will lie bare to our knife, and their 
career, in a single night, will be ended on 
the earth. 

Next week, I shall write concerning the 
nature of the Century War, now beginning, 
between civilized man of true human color 
and the bleached and black barbarians. 
Yours humbly, 

Li Hung Chang, 
IIL Son of Li Hung Chang. 



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Your Excellency : 

I have had the honor to receive your Ex- 
cellency's acknowledgment of my previous 
letter, embodying some of the conclusions 
of the Great Council of Tsi-Nan, and, in 
compliance with my Master's command and 
your wish, I gladly send you a second letter, 
continuing the subject. 

In my previous letter, these facts were em- 
phasized : That there are three humanities 
which can never coalesce nor amalgamate ; 
that, of these, one must inherit the earth and 
the others perish ; that, if the earth is to be 
possessed by us, the Sons of Heaven of true 
human color, we must destroy those whose 
skins are bleached and black. We must 
destroy the white race first, because of its 
present particularly belligerent instincts, 
and later proceed to the more difficult task 
of exterminating the blacks. 

As to methods, the Great Council was of 
one mind. We must use the same methods 
in treating with the barbarians that are em- 
ployed in capturing wild animals. No man 
exposes his own human flesh, on an equal 

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basis, to the claws or teeth of the wild beast, 
but what he lacks in teeth and claws he 
more than makes up in cunning and fore- 
thought. Like the hunter, therefore, we 
must use bait and a trap. 

What is bait ? 

Bait is something that satisfies the master 
passion of a fish^ an animal^ or a bleached- 
skinned barbariaft. 

It is used by superior beings to lead inferiors 
where they will be at the mercy of their supe- 
riors. 

A fish swallows a worm, and the fisher's 
hook is lodged in its vitals : the fish is pulled 
out and fried. 

A rat nibbles a piece of cheese, and is 
seized by a spring and made to add its 
superb flavor to our soup. 

Like the fish and the rat, the white-skinned 
barbarian has no mental faculty to discern 
the reality of the future. He cannot learn 
from the experience of extinct races and 
civilizations. Like the fish and the rat, he 
is led only by appetite, and in place of 
worm and cheese, his passion is for gold 
and show, for trade and bombast. Like the 
fish and the rat, his method is opportunism ; 
therefore, like them, he can be caught by bait 
and a trap and be made to serve the comfort 
of higher creatures. 

The white governments are not organized 
peoples, but in reality only organized groups 
of traders and human ornaments, the other 
classes of citizens having no part in them. 
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The white governments exist solely for 
the purpose of assisting their members in 
gold getting, and religion is cultivated 
among them in order to have a God to 
whom they can refer moralists and those 
who would suggest the reality of the inter- 
ests of future generations. 

In building private fortunes, they are athe- 
ists, and trust only their own right arms ; in 
helping others or the race, they are devotees, 
and trust all to their God, not interfering 
in the least, even in their thought. Hence 
we need not fear that the animal that we 
are entrapping will take fright and dis- 
cover us, for his brain lacks the required 
element. 

We are not compelled to inflict suffering 
on the living creatures we deal with, for, 
before our plan is executed, they will have 
closed their eyes in death, their mouths 
wreathed with the smile of victory. They 
will have gained their personal ends, their 
children forfeiting their lives in payment, 
and we, with whom father and son and 
grandson are one, and each generation but 
the continuation of its predecessor, will also 
die smiling. For, as the individual is but 
a passing phase, and the real life is the race 
life, we shall triumph best by satisfying to 
the full the avarice and vanity of the white 
adventurers. 

As a worm to a fish and a bit of cheese 
to a rat, so is a human victim to the white- 
skinned man-eater ; and what jmage can be 
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more attractive to him than a dangling Chi- 
nese mechanic, the most efficient and easily 
fed worker in the world ? Only the image 
of 400,000,000 of them, all anxious to serve 
him, to separate oysters and pearls from 
shells, giving him the oysters and pearls and 
subsisting themselves on the shells. Such 
a picture is the richest bait. With such, we 
will land our fish and fry him, catch our rat 
and enrich our soup with him. We will 
gain possession of all the fairest spots of 
earth, and stifle the remnants of the white 
skins* progeny with material he has given us. 

That our superior powers of intelligence 
may be brought at once into direct contact 
with the powers of the so-called civilization 
of the bleached faces we have decided to 
bring the hungry animals in direct sight of 
the bait aforementioned. This shall be 
accomplished by encouraging some of our 
ignorant multitudes to massacre a few mis- 
sionaries, and put to death some of the white 
officials of high rank residing in Pekin. 
This will bring armed bands from every 
province of the white skins, into the very 
heart of our empire, teaching our own igno- 
rant and prejudiced millions the real advan- 
tages possessed by the barbarians, and 
presenting vividly and tragically to the ava- 
ricious barbarians the bait of our trap; 
namely, 400,000,000 slaves waiting for 
masters to organize and exploit them. 

In the face of such a tempting bait, the 
bleached provinces will begin to depopulate 
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one another, contending for our territory, 
which they will proceed to divide among 
themselves. They will then organize our 
myriads, bestowing upon us, as their slaves 
and servants, their weapons of industry and 
their weapons of war. We will become the 
common soldier in the greatest industrial 
and commercial warfare of history, and, as 
it is impossible for white labor to compete 
with civilized labor, bankruptcy at home 
will force the captains of industry through- 
out the world to assist in the importation of 
Chinese labor to every one of the white 
lands. 

As war has become largely a matter of 
mechanical science, and as the Chinese are 
the best mechanics in the world, some war- 
ring province will start to utilize Chinese 
soldiers, with the result that all the other 
white provinces will be compelled to do the 
same or perish. In this way, by the very 
superiority of our natural gifts, we shall gain 
control of the powers of industry and the 
powers of war, continuing to occupy our own 
lands, while substituting our blood and kin 
for the white laborers and white soldiers of 
all other lands. 

By covering our heads with the ashes of 
humility for one generation^ we shall engulf 
the earth and reduce all other races to ashes ^ 
which we shall trample under our feet through- 
out the innumerable generations that follow. 

This White Anaconda shall be tempted to 
swallow a race larger than itself and when 

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comfortably inside, we shall expand y appropri- 
ating such parts of the surrounding flesh as 
may be of service, casting aside the skin and 
scales when they are of no ftirther use. 

We shall humbly bend our head and kiss 
his sacred toe, but only to grasp the founda- 
tions of his body to cause his death fall. 

The white barbarian shall eat his fill, think- 
ing his mess is meat, but each dainty morsel 
will prove stronger than the stomach into 
which it is received, and instead of being 
digested, shall itself digest. 

Instead of that which goes within becom- 
ing a part of that which encloses from with- 
out, that which encloses from without shall be 
dissolved by that which went within, while 
skeleton and useful tissue will be made to 
serve a new will and a higher type of 
brain. 

Our procedure shall be as follows : 

(i) To emigrate, and as servants, laborers, 
or slaves to occupy all the choice portions 
of the earth's surface. 

(2) To underbid the labor market of the 
world, and get possession, as underpaid toil- 
ers, of the world's chief industries, 

(3) To enlist, wherever possible, in the 
armies of the white provinces, and, by our 
efficiency, and assumed docility and devo- 
tion, to become the chief defence of white 
governments and the rich classes whom they 
exist to serve. 

(4) To underbid, everywhere, in the sea- 
faring labor market, by the help of secret 

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subsidies, so that millions of our race shall 
become thorough masters of the sea. 

(5) To send our brightest young men to 
foreign schools to acquire all the knowledge 
and powers now possessed by the white 
skins. 

(6) To borrow all the money we can with 
which to develop our resources ; so that, at 
the end of a century, we shall have within 
our boundaries the larger share of the world^s 
wealth. 

(7) While despised for our apparent weak- 
ness, we shall, by means of athletic and 
other clubs associated with our noble order, 
thoroughly develop the physical and mental 
powers of our young men; so that, in the 
opening year of the next century, we shall 
have a central reserve of 40,000,000 trained 
and athletic soldiers, the best in the world, 
while our sailors will be in possession of 
the white skins' ships. 

(8) The expenditure of 50,000,000 taels 
annually, as a secret service fund to augment 
the poisonous streams of thought now eating 
out the heart of the white race. 

(9) To provoke frequent and bloody wars 
between the different branches of this vio- 
lent stock. 

Now as to the bait and the trap, and the 
barbarians to be caught therein : 

Slave labor is the bait. 

Sterility, Degeneration, Decay, and Sub- 
stitution are the trap. 

The white skin is the game. 
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The Chinese, Son of Heaven, is the 
Hunter. 

From olden times, one of the cleverest de- 
vices in war with both man and beast has 
been to lead the enemy on, by making him 
believe that he is the hunter and that we are 
the game, and when he is where we want 
him, to turn on him and destroy him. 

So with the white skin — he must con- 
tinue to think that he is hunting us, that we 
are to be his slaves, that he is to rule the 
world and utilize our labor in the building 
of his world empire. Meanwhile we know 
that in the guise of slaves, of servants, and 
laborers, we can best and most quickly grasp 
his possessions and extinguish him. 

The people who make up the kingdom of 
Italy are the descendants of the slaves of 
ancient Rome, not of its senators or pa- 
tricians. 

Slavery, as proved by all history , is the most 
efficient weapon ever fashioned for displacing 
one race by another. 

The laborers of every country eventually 
inherit and dominate it. 

Labor is the law of life, and the conquerors 
and inheritors of the world have ever been 
those who till and people the land. 

One of the primary facts of sociology is 
this, that the master, moved by vanity and 
love of distinction, will always prefer to 
leave one son owning ten slaves, rather than 
ten sons owning one slave. Hence the in- 
stitution of slavery (both the more primitive 
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kind and the new industrial, or wage, slavery) 
always tends to reduce the number of off- 
spring of the ruling class, and to increase 
the progeny of the slave, or working, class* 
The rich governing class, in all the provinces 
of the white skin, has ever been in process of 
burning out, like the flame end of a candle, 
and would cease to be but for the fact that 
it is continually renewed from below. Those 
who till the soil and perform the hard work 
of the country eventually reach the flame by 
this continuous burning at the top, and where 
the base is of a different race, there follow 
extinction and substitution. 

Were a Mongol conqueror to defeat the 
Much and Mighty Rhodes of South Africa, 
and rule the country, rotting in luxury, glis- 
tening with gems from head to foot, he would 
doubtless be driven away at some future time 
by a stronger adventurer, while the result to 
Chinese civilization would be simply the 
death, through the dry rot of luxury, of some 
of the more hardy of our Sons of Heaven. 
Such conquest, the bombast of a day, the 
glory of verbosity, is fit only to tickle the 
savage strutting pride of sauerkraut-eating 
Germans, frog-eating French, or beer-be- 
sotted British. 

The true conquest is the conquest of the 
soil. We set our bait in front of Rhodes 
the Much and Mighty, and he snatches it. 
To rot in luxury and perish in intoxication 
is what he and his sterile breed desire. So, 
as a fish to a worm and a rat to cheese, the 

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Much and Mighty onb of South Africa fol- 
lows in the footsteps of the advance agents of 
the Chinese Conquest of America ; namely, 
the railway officials who first planted our 
blood and dominion there, and we are be- 
coming the inheritors of South Africa. So 
will it be throughout the length and breadth 
of all the territories of the white skins. 
Their rulers and rich men want more riches 
and slaves : we want that part of the earth 
they occupy for our children. Each race 
shall get what it wants. 

In the land of the white skins, one bar- 
barian by smart tricks cheats his neighbors 
out of their homes and other property, and 
when they are compelled to work for him, in 
order to live, he calls them a commodity, 
and this classification he calls science. 
With him, individual wealth is everything; 
his ancestors and descendants, nothing. He 
cares not whether his fortune is made by 
white or black or yellow means, for, between 
his religion and his political economy, he 
escapes all moral responsibility and all obli- 
gation to his race. He, the capitalist and 
statesman, wants wealth created by labor; 
the laborer is a commodity, a machine — and 
the Chinese can underbid the world. ^S*^ 
the less fit and 7nore expensive white machine 
will be displaced by the fitter and cheaper yel- 
low machine, until the day of Celestial 
Triumph on the earth, when those white 
masters who have survived the dry rot of 
luxury and the violence of their internecine 

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strife will suddenly see the glare of a new 
light in each machine, for the soul of the 
Mongolian will blaze forth its true fire, and 
the only white faces seen on earth thereafter 
will be the ghosts who linger to remind us 
of the departed. 

As the bleating of lambs led to slaughter 
and the cackling of fowls attracted by corn 
to the block and hatchet, so is the prattle 
of dominion and trade on the part of these 
creatures who, with the foresight of fowls and 
fishes, lambs and rats, are giving their lands 
and houses, ships and mines over to our 
laborers, while their poor relations, after 
being swindled of their birthright and 
dubbed a commodity, as superseded ma- 
chines, are laid on the shelf to rust. 

It is because they see in one another, as 
they see in us, only creatures made to serve 
individual avarice, that we can so easily dis- 
place them by playing one against the other. 

I am asked to especially urge your Excel- 
lency to impress upon our young men the 
virtue of patience, that, while fitting them- 
selves every one for war when it comes, they 
may remember that we have everything to 
gain, and the white skins everything to lose, 
by postponing open conflict as long as pos- 
sible, except the small furor we are now 
starting to bring the two races together. 

I hope to receive your Excellency's per- 
mission to write further, setting forth more 
definitely the plan of our Council for mul- 
tiplying the destructive tendencies of the 

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religion and political economy of the white 
skins, and explaining the aim of the proposed 
annual appropriation of 70,000,000 taels to 
the Secret Service Fund. 

Most humbly your servant, 

Li Hung Chang, 
III. Son of Li Hung Chang. 



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Your Excellency : 

His August Worship, the Chief of the 
Brotherhood of Patriots, and those members 
of the Great Council still remaining in Tsi- 
Nan were delighted by your acknowledg- 
ment of our second letter, and especially at 
your assurance that the young men, even 
more than the wise men, were responding en 
masse to our appeal. From Hunan, and 
Szechuan, and Yunnan, and Kweichau, and 
Kwangsi, and Hainan, and Kuangtung, and 
Fukien, and Chekiang, and Hupeh, and Am- 
hui, and Kwangsi, and Shensi, and Shansi, 
and Chili come the same encouraging 
answers, that young China is a unit in its 
passion to live, and to conquer, and to exter- 
minate all alien forms of life — barbarian, 
animal, or vegetable — that stand in the way 
of our ascendency. 

To continue the subject raised in our last 
letter; namely, the vulnerable points of the 
foreign devils, we will now consider two 
bands of steel that grip them, checking their 
growth and limiting their power — bands that, 
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in destroying their race, we must strengthen, 
as they are our allies, 

These bands are, first, their political 
economy ; and, second, their religion. One 
binds their feet, and the other their arms ; 
so that, with the help of the two, we shall 
have little trouble in conquering them. 
They work together like the two parts of a 
valve, like a cork and a bottle, or as one 
leg to the other, together making up a phi- 
losophy that clears the way perfectly for the 
race that accepts it to descend rapidly to 
oblivion. Together they surround the indi- 
vidual entirely. When he is vigorous and 
aggressive, political economy leads him 
down the hill, and when he is ill and the 
prey of superstitions and the fear of death, 
religion takes the lead, both carrying him 
down in the same diiQction, ^xtng his atten- 
tio7i and concentrating all his efforts on his 
individuality^ which is hopeless, and distract- 
ing him from his race life, for which his at- 
tention and efforts might possibly render 
some service. 

In vigorous manhood, when the intellect is 
critical, political economy teaches, ^* Every 
man for himself, and devil take the hind- 
most ; * * and when the brain becomes opaque, 
political economy hands the reins to his 
partner, religion, which says, '^ In personal 
business, trust your own right arm and ex- 
perienced agents j in helping others, the race 
and the country, trust God and preachers.'* 
Whether political economy or religion con- 
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trols, the result is the same : effective action 
for self, and incoordinated sentiment, sym- 
pathy, or contempt for others. 

The disciples of political economy, in pur- 
suit of trade, teach us the use of their man- 
killing engines, in order to sell us such 
engines, with which we, 400,000,000 strong, 
will one day slay their descendants. The 
missionaries of their religion, paid by 
moneys that might have strengthened the 
moral fibre and the organization of the 
moral forces of their own people, bring us 
their discoveries in medicine, sanitation, 
industry, and social organization, which we 
have profited by, while rejecting their vile 
superstitions. The killing of missionaries, 
except where needed to arouse interest in 
our propaganda, is not in line with the pro- 
gramme of our Brotherhood, and is generally 
done by our ignorant and ill-advised friends. 
For so long as the bulk of the wealth not 
bequeathed to descendants can be diverted 
through the superstitions of aged degener- 
ates to strengthening our race, in place of 
building useful public agencies so much 
needed by the bleached barbarians them- 
selves, so long have we an ally in the white 
skins' organized religion. 

Another service this religion does us is to 
encourage social intercourse between our 
lowest orders and the healthiest and most 
innocent of the barbarian women. Our vices, 
as a strong and mature race, we can resist 
with the minimum loss of life, but the white 

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barbarians, because of the violence of their 
rude natures, when taught our vices, do not 
survive indulgence more than three or four 
years. What to our lowest orders is merely 
a bad habit, tending to debilitate the system, 
is nothing less than death to the barbarians. 
Therefore, in planning the extinction of the 
white race, and to this end welcoming every 
agency that helps us in diminishing their 
numbers, or in decreasing the physical or 
mental powers of those surviving, the exten- 
sion of oriental vices is one fruitful process. 
But where are we to come into contact with 
healthy parts of the hostile society, in order 
to poison it ? There is but one means ; 
namely, the church missions. 

In various parts of the white lands, the 
future mothers of white soldiers are ever 
desirous of adding to the number of stars on 
their crown in their heaven after they are 
dead, by securing Chinese converts to their 
religion. For this purpose they establish 
Chinese Sunday-schools, in which our coolies 
come into contact with the young barbarian 
women, much to the ladies' delight and 
profit, because they add to the number of 
stars in their crowns when dead, which we 
do not begrudge them, and we establish the 
opium habit among the white society women, 
checking their fertility and weakening their 
race. Our coolies profess Jesus as their 
master, and thus secure the affectionate re- 
gard of the ladies who have saved their souls, 
and have the best opportunity for seduction 
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f 



and opium propaganda ever enjoyed by an 
alien race. Every Chinese Sunday-school in 
the white lands is a new point for the estab- 
lishment of the opium habit, and for the 
enlistment of white women for our service. 
Sometimes our successful coolie marries the 
white lady — more often he gains his ends 
without marriage. In the Province of Chili 
alone^ we have traced 247 of such white 
wives or concubines of our coolies, brought 
over from the lands of the superstitious bar- 
barians. When they arrive they are traded 
from one Chinaman to another as a novelty, 
but they do not last long, for white life is 
frail under new social conditions. 

Every potential white mother thus diverted 
from her natural function as the mother of 
white soldiers is a distinct gain to China in 
the war of races. We have, therefore, estab- 
lished a school for prospective young emi- 
grants to the lands of the foreign devils, 
where they are instructed in the art of being 
converted, and in appearing to believe all 
the remarkable yarns about men living in 
the belly of whales, and the first man and 
woman talking with serpents at a period 
when China was a civilized country. They 
are taught to say, ^^ Yes, I believe,** to all 
these pretty nursery tales, but only when 
told by pretty women, and never to believe 
any one of the accursed yarns when told by 
men. We thus induce the fanatics, in order 
to gain converts and stars in their corpses* 
crowns, to expose their sisters and daughters 

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to the arts of our trained seducers. Every 
girl caught with the bait of ^^ Chinese con- 
verts/* means one family less of white sol- 
diers, and the opium and other vices planted 
in a fresh spot from whence to spread. 

The little innocent lying required con- 
cerning the yams of wonder workers does 
not weaken or lessen one whit the fertility 
of our coolies. In fact, it is pleasant and 
stimulating exercise for them and brightens 
their wits. 

From the success of this plan, too, we 
gain assurance that our triumph will be 
speedy, because a race that becomes the 
victim of such a simple trick has not the 
mental power to resist extinction for more 
than a couple of generations. They look at 
verbal things — build on words — talk about 
so many Chinese professing Jesus, when from 
our point of view and the real events of life 
some of our coolies have chattered and lied 
in a way to please the vanity of silly girls, 
with whom they have become intimate 
friends, and among whom they sow the seeds 
of death, hypnotizing^many into actual physi- 
cal possession, even unto carrying them back 
to China to minister to the lust of their 
coolie friends. We think this experiment 
is well worth the 50,000 taels per year we 
have voted toward its support. 

Our other ally, political economy, offers 
even a more fruitful field for checking white- 
skin fertility, and handicapping them in 
their race with ourselves. If there is any- 

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thing the white skin is attracted by, it is 
plausibility; so that, when that greatest 
white friend of China, Malthus, wrote his in- 
genious book, giving to the barbarians for 
the first time the law of population, it was 
like giving a razor or a match to an infant. 
They began to amuse themselves and exer- 
cise their knowledge by committing suicide, 
much to the advantage of the Chinese and 
the black races. They were told that throats 
should be cut, and they proceeded to cut 
their own ; that a fire should be built, and 
they proceeded to burn down their own 
house while they remained inside. No sin- 
gle fact in the history of the white race gives 
more evidence of its transient character than 
the infantile application of the great truths 
enunciated by Malthus, Friend of China and 
Arch-Destroyer of the Caucasian. He taught 
that, if the human race were permitted to 
increase without check, it tended to mul- 
tiply in geometrical progression, while the 
means of life tended to increase in arith- 
metical. His disciples argued that, rather 
than nature's old way of check by famine, 
pestilence, and war, it is better to exercise 
prudence, and for their readers to check the 
number of their offspring, limiting families 
to one or two children each. In conse- 
quence, the young men and women who read 
books and attended lectures, the brightest 
and most intellectual of the white race, be- 
gan to act prudently, marrying late, and 
some limiting their progeny to one or two, 

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others not allowing any, until the studious 
and more thoughtful of the white race have 
in a few generations so depleted their ranks 
that it has amounted to class suicide, and 
the ignoranty depraved^ and weakly , who did 
not read or think or attend lectures ^ have sub- 
stituted their posterity for the others. As a 
result, the average intelligence and person- 
ality of the race have fallen by one-half. 

From the standpoint of Chinese triumph 
in the world, to convince one intelligent, 
morally and physically sound young couple 
to be prudent in the Malthusian sense is 
a greater gain than to kill half a hundred 
drunken rowdy soldiers, who anyhow would 
probably die with their generation, without 
raising substitutes. 

These white barbarians learn in the sanc- 
tified shadows of their universities that 
population tends to multiply faster than the 
means of life, and that it must be checked, 
either rudely and painfully by nature, or 
less painfully by prudence and human intel- 
ligence, and they choose what they think is 
the better way; namely, prudence and hu- 
man intelligence. But the infantile bar- 
barians lose sight of the main question of 
the problem. 

Here is a great big humanity that grows 
faster than its clothes, and must be trimmed 
down a bit. The feeble, untrained white 
skin concerns his puerile brain with the 
question, How ? The enlightened Chinese 
with the question, Where ? The childish 
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white skin thinks, if trimming must be done, 
he must begin near by, and so he cuts out a 
piece of his brain to reduce his weight. He 
trims, not only his own race, but the most 
favored members of that race, the small class 
who are capable of listening to reason, while 
to the larger class, who are incapable of rea- 
soning or reading or listening, he has be- 
queathed his country. 

Thanks to our divine ancestry, we are 
gifted with minds that do not forget the 
central current of life, in observing its side 
eddies. 

We were familiar with the Malthusian 
laws centuries before this discoverer gave 
over to his barbarous contemporaries this 
greatest of all instruments for self-destruc- 
tion. 

We too know that it is the tendency of 
humanity to increase faster than the means 
of subsistence, and we too believe in trim- 
ming, but we do not trim Chinese. What 
trimming there is to be done, we believe in 
doing at the other end. 

We believe in prudence, or a check on off- 
spring, being applied on and by the white man. 
If humanity grows too fast and must be 
checked, we believe that the check should be 
applied to alien races. 

When the white and black races are ex- 
tinct and we have peopled the earth with 
our own kind, and this tendency continues, 
we shall not attempt, like the grotesque 
whites, to lessen the mass by cutting out the 



brain, but by trimming the nails and elim- 
inating the fat and pimples. 

Those who are capable of comprehending 
such a law will deserve to multiply unrestrict- 
edly, until the7'e are no others. 

When it becomes necessary to restrict 
Chinese, we will begin by means of public 
measures to keep the vicious, the ignorant, 
and the criminal from leaving descendants, 
making sure that those who supplant are 
superior to those supplanted. 

In harmony with our plan to cooperate 
with and aid all those forces now destroy- 
ing and weakening the white race, the Cen- 
tral Council has voted 1,000,000 taels per 
year for establishing chairs of political econ- 
omy in all colleges and high schools where 
none now exist. 

We shall also aid in circulating the liter- 
ature of health reformers, proving to imag- 
inative girls that they are committing the 
most fiendish crime by bringing a new soul 
into the world unless they, the mothers, are 
in perfect health. As few young white 
women, having the normal measure of imag- 
inative or inventive instincts, ever think 
they or their husbands have perfect health, 
this literature will tend to eliminate what 
imagination and conscience is still left to 
the white race, besides lessening its numbers. 

We shall also help establish new humor- 
ous publications that make nursing and child 
raising an object of contempt, and shall 
subsidize many new ^' thrift '* publications 

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that appeal to cupidity in behalf of steril- 
ity, all of which means the quicker triumph 
of China. 

I am asked to urge upon your Excellency 
that you impress upon the young men of 
your province the necessity of not chafing 
imder the yoke of apparent and temporary 
bondage, but to see in our apparently lame 
dealings with the barbarians the cleverest of 
human devices for catching our prey. The 
barbarian's strong arm is as nothing when, 
by our ancient subtlety, we can control the 
life forces of which this momentary strength 
is but a passing manifestation. 
Most humbly yours, 

Li Hung Chang, 
III. Son of Li Hung Chang. 



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Your Excellency : 

No subject among the multitude discussed 
during the five months' sitting of our Coun- 
cil appealed to the wise men assembled with 
more force than that of the factors now ac- 
tive in destroying the white race and the 
possible methods of our strengthening them. 
Those young men among us who have trav- 
elled in the lands from whence come the 
foreign devils proved conclusively to our 
august listeners that many forms and institu- 
tions, established among them for the pur- 
pose of saving life, have become ends in 
themselves, and are held to be superior to 
the life for which they were brought into 
existence. 

For instance, their institution of mar- 
riage, evolved as one of the means of de- 
fence in the ages' struggle for the mother 
and children as against the claims of lust, 
has been debased from its place, as means 
to a high end, to an idol worshipped for 
itself alone. 

The sanctity and utility of the institution 
of marriage with the whites, as with us, 
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rested upon the service of this institution 
in the saving and protection of child life. 
Purity and home came to exist, not to add 
to the delights of passion, but to make pas- 
sion subordinate to that for which passion 
exists ; namely, offspring. But so thoroughly 
engrossed are the white skins in their sepa- 
rate individualities and their own little souls, 
that they are incapable of viewing the real 
stream of life a3 it actually exists, one 
generation flowing ever out from its prede- 
cessor. Between their religion, their po- 
litical economy, and their miserably selfish 
momentary philosophy, the mother of both, 
they regard offspring and the eternal stream 
of life as something altogether secondary, 
and the marriage certificate the eternal rock 
on which all else rests. 

With them a wedding ring without a baby 
is more sacred and desirable than a baby with- 
out a wedding ring. 

Of course, we, the Sons of Heaven, the 
truly civilized of the earth, believe that or- 
der and good form are always preferable to 
disorder and bad form, and that the institu- 
tion of marriage is an effective instrument for 
the introduction of order into the domestic re- 
lations of men and women. So we believe 
in order and good breeding at the table. 
But where there is no table or dishes, does 
a civilized man refuse to eat ? Does he 
choose to give up all life rather than pro- 
ceed for the time being lacking one of life's 
props ? 

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Better to eat properly than improperly^ but 
better eat improperly than not to eat at all. 

With us, who are destined to fill the whole 
earth, the race life is even more sacred and 
important than the individual life, and the 
duty of man and woman to live eternally in 
their offspring more sacred than the right to 
live a few days, more or less, in their individ- 
ual perishing hulks. 

Marriage expresses the true and proper 
relation of the sexes. When there is a con- 
flict between the institution of marriage and 
lust, then must all right-minded men defend 
the institution of marriage. But when fric- 
tion arises between this institution and the 
rights of maternity, paternity, and child- 
hood, then do all, except the deformed in 
brain, sacrifice the form and the institution 
to the life. 

In sendee to life, lies the sole right of exist- 
ence to all forms and institutions. 

For instance, with the white barbarians 
the individual perishing hulks are rated of 
so much greater consequence than the eter- 
nal life, resurrected anew in each genera- 
tion, that a man or woman is taught that it 
is his or her duty to die with the present 
perishing hulk, childless, rather than to 
transgress the marriage form. The Chris- 
tians have made much noise, and frightened 
multitudes of children into giving their 
pennies to Hindoo missions, by stories of 
Hindoo wives, impelled by superstition, 
willingly perishing on the funeral pyres of 
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their husbands. But such a sacrifice of a 
perishing hulk, soon destined under all cir- 
cumstances to rot of its own accord, is not 
so serious, and is much more noble than the 
sacrifice of offspring, the surrender of all 
chance to mingle with the living forms who 
through the future centuries are to possess 
the planet, simply because this is impossible 
with the mate by law chosen. 

In the civilized countries of China and 
Japan, if a wife is barren, she is the more 
anxious that her husband be not so, and, al- 
though on the basis of love and friendship she 
continues as his bosom companion, another is 
selected to rear them children who become the 
joint possession and joy of all three. Like- 
wise, if the husband is sterile, while con- 
tinuing the recipient of faithful love and 
friendship as before, he secures another to 
assist in obtaining a family. 

No superstition or selfish vanity of the 
white skins appears more monstrous in our 
eyes than this disposition to obliterate a 
stream of life, in its nature eternal, because 
of vicious sentimentality toward one momen- 
tary wave of the stream. 

This is to sacrifice, not the remains of a 
widow, who lives principally in her throng 
of little ones, at the funeral pyre of her life- 
long companion, but it means the sacrifice 
of centuries of life, with its sentiments and 
passions, to the selfish and provincial ex- 
actions of a bigoted devotee to the vanities 
of the individual carcass. 

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With OS life is the primaiy end, while the 
sentiments or products of life are secondaiy, 
existing to assist and protect life, and for 

their inheres: ;oys. 

/' r:: ; ; j semti" 

mex.: . i is a 

wAi\ nglori- 

ous se":::::r::: j^: :. "'.?.':. :~ • ::":;.•:: :".i%' de- 
mand :::.: :. v.:::::e: ^: :::::v.-::::r. ::: '::e 
conn"".: :.i:e 5-.::::ie, ::..\: \\t s':'.:-:.\i ':::.zi 
exkre: ::e : : e ^:v e. ^::i y iss his force, 
his ^;.fs:::: . r ? 5.::5:..:::r .:: :: :l:e worms 
alon^, ::i:::e: :J:a:i :r;.::s^:e5s :ze :orm and 
lii?c eternal. We, the Sons of HeaTen, 
consider such a sacrifice of life as even more 
absurd than the burning of the Hindoo 
widow a few paltry days before her natural 
dissolution, with the corpse of her d^Murted 
husband. For one individualitf to dissolve 
prematurely, after having rejuvenated itself 
in numerous ofiEspring, is a li^t matter com- 
pared with that stem and cruel mandate 
idiich would limit the immortal life to the 
brief ST. i:: re: -ee.-: :"e cradle and one grave. 

Were : :: ::i:e if ^"x :.:? to ciTilize the 
wj:::e SxZf :^s :::e -yye^: A:ixious to civil- 
: : e u f . ^ e :: : ^ : : : 5 .: : : e e i . : 5 ending our 
^e^i:::^ y hi^rsryherf :i:":::^ ::ie":. :n show- 
1"^ :::e::: :::r iriie:: ::: :v :: :::e:: : zr^^ ?iid 

: r e ' e : f z z i ~ i : r-insient individuality, a 
:v re 5:iy :::: e :: cir ideals which have 

: : 1 : .". : :; e r ^ : e . : : ;. 1 coctinnocs stream 



We might be able to convert these bar- 
barians to base their thoughts upon the per- 
manent and real, instead of the phenom- 
enal and transient. To thus become their 
teachers might be pleasing to our vanity, 
while, united with the barbarous vigor of this 
violent and remarkable race, it might tip 
the balance in their favor, and decree that 
they, and not we should occupy this earth. 
Therefore no Son of Heaven could be guilty 
of a greater crime than that of giving to the 
foreign devils our potent ideals and philoso- 
phy, to which their childish minds have not 
yet risen. 

Let every sage and promising youth of hu- 
man color be taught this fundamental man- 
date ; namely, that it is our duty to learn 
everything known by the white skin that we 
do not know, to grasp every power that he 
possesses which we do not possess, but un- 
der no circumstances to give him our phi- 
losophy and ideals of life. Without this, 
his incoordinated and ill-balanced sciences 
and powers will in the end but destroy one 
another and their possessors. 

That area on the surface of the convolu- 
tions of the white barbarian's brain still 
darkened by the stain of savagery we must 
enclose as we do primitive scenery and de- 
fend to the last against encroachments by 
the light of civilization. If we, as a race, 
adhere strictly to this policy, the white devil 
will prove the greatest friend of China. He 
will be one added to that great throng of 

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animals who, pursuing their own ends, un- 
consciously add to the power and lasting 
glory of the all -conquering Chinese. 

As cows, in supplying milk to their own 
calves, without any good intentions on their 
part supply us also with milk ; as bees, in 
accumulating sweets for their own hive, with- 
out intending it supply us also with honey ; 
as ferrets, without expecting even a dish of 
exquisite soup, but merely for the love of 
destruction, catch rats enough in one day to 
flavor soup sufficient to last our largest fam- 
ily for a week ; as the bumble bee, in gath- 
ering sweets for itself, carries pollen uncon- 
sciously on its wings from one clover blossom 
to another, thus supplying food for our cat- 
tle over all our vast plains of the north, so 
these ferocious, inventing, yet unphilosophi- 
cal white barbarians, impelled by their own 
fierce passions, will, like musk-rats burrow- 
ing in the soil, root out, one after another, 
the mysteries of the violent forces of the 
earth, in such perfect harmony with the vio- 
lent passions of their own bodies, and turn 
them over to us, and then, like the buffalo, 
the mastodon, and the dinotherium, having 
served the purpose intended by heaven, 
vanish. 

Let us keep before our eyes the image of 
two parallel lines, enclosing a space repre- 
senting the habitable area of the earth, 
which ever remains the same, with another 
line starting midway between these two, but 
diverging to the left, the ever-increasing 
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right space representing land occupied by 
our flesh and blood, the ever-decreasing left 
space, that occupied by others. 

As our territory expands, that of others 
must contract, and so long as this one ten- 
dency continues, the issue of wars, and bat- 
tles, and rule, and wealth, and duty, and 
moral codes, and religions, and treaties, and 
dynasties mean nothing to us, for ours is the 
irresistible war of conquest. At the point 
where the oblique line meets the left paral- 
lel line, white and black disappear. 

Let the barbarians take possession of all 
the palaces of earth. These will prove to 
be but the schoolmaster's chair in which 
they can do us most efficient service. 

Let them continue to have legal, and ver- 
bal, and paper possession of all the wealth 
in the world. This they do not take with 
them out of the world, but they use it in the 
world in two ways to our advantage. They 
practise monstrous luxuries which decrease 
their fertility, making their men unfruitful 
and their women barren. The wealth not 
consumed in luxury they use to increase the 
sources of wealth, in developing the sci- 
ences, acquiring new knowledge, and beauti- 
fying the earth for the benefit, not of their 
perishing form of life, but for the benefit of 
the workers of our race destined to supplant 
them. Therefore, so long as the white skin 
holds his present philosophy and we hold 
ours, both can be made happy and satisfied. 
We, then, will willingly turn over the re- 

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sources of the world into their hands. We 
will borrow their money, and buy their goods, 
and make the earth a garden. 

IVe prefer to live t?t the cottages and assist 
tJum to die in t?u palaces. 

Ever}' young barbarian among them de- 
sires nothing more than to rot amidst lux- 
ury. Each and every one would prefer to 
swill wine and honey, waited upon by a host 
of servants, to die childless, and to dis- 
appear from the earth, rather than to live 
healthfully through countless generations 
under that supreme law of life, the law of 
labor. 

The healthy ser\'ant and his family will 
willingly endure much abuse in assisting the 
dying bachelor to beautify his farm ; for the 
dying bachelor's only privilege on his own 
farm is to increase its value for the enjoy- 
ment of his servant and his servant's chil- 
dren. 

!Most humbly yours, 

Li Hung Chang, 
///. Son of Li Hung Chang, 



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Your Excellency : 

Having outlined part of the programme 
of the great Tsi-Nan Council for the ex- 
termination of the foreign devils and the 
occupation of all the surface of the earth by 
the one race Celestial, I am commanded in 
this letter, on behalf of the Council, to 
point out to you what, in their august opin- 
ion, are the chief dangers and obstacles in 
the way of our advance. 

The first and greatest danger is that^ as 
we appropriate the science of tJie barbaria7is^ 
they may discover our philosophy. 

In such an event, by utilizing their other- 
wise temporary military advantages, they 
might tie us hand and foot, and use our own 
programme for their destruction against our- 
selves, even as we expect to put them out of 
existence by means of the sciences they have 
brought into existence. 

If, through some calamitous evil chance, 
they were to turn their attention from the 
theorems of the differential calculus and 
other higher mathematics, and were to learn 
to apply the simple rules of proportion and 
the multiplication table to the comparative 
growth of races, they might snatch our bait, 

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and in addition seize us and confine us in 
the trap we had set for them. But it is not 
likely that a race that has lost itself com- 
pletely in the multiplicity of its small cre- 
ations would so turn back upon its own tra- 
ditions as to form the habit of measuring 
and comparing according to relative import- 
ance their various affairs. 

We are united in the possession of a 
peaceful confidence that they will continue 
to refashion the earth, multiplying knowl- 
edge and wealth, while we quietly increase 
in numbers and acquire without effort their 
knowledge second-hand. 

Pitiable barbarians ! So unadapted are 
their institutions for dealing with large ques- 
tions that concern the race or posterity, that 
even when individuals now and then an- 
nounce the constant gain of the Chinese 
population in proportion to the white, the 
barbarian rulers will not see the culmination 
to which such a tendency necessarily leads. 
But although we are confident, we are not 
certain. AVe think we are hunting the tiger, 
but it is at least thinkable that the tiger is 
also hunting us. 

We bait our trap with a man, and when 
the beast approaches, we close in on him : 
but suppose this first beast were also bait, 
and the tiger barbarian developed the longer 
head and the more intricate trap. Then 
would we fall as now we expect him to fall. 
The thought of this possibility should serve 
to keep us constantly on the alert for any 
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evidence of the barbarian's mind develop- 
ing the faculty of '* common sense," as, in 
such a case, we should be lost. 

The special measures that would most en- 
danger our cause would be efiective exclu- 
sion from white territories, or the prohibi- 
tion of emigration from our country, which 
measure alone would limit our powers of ex- 
pansion and largely destroy the value of our 
race fertility. 

The second dangerous blow we have to 
fear is that the white governments disarm us 
totally and establish the principle that no 
nation shall ever arm a member of our race 
or utilize our assistance in any war whatso- 
ever. If, in addition, the white skins were 
to take unto themselves our entire water 
traffic, both coast and inland, and prohibit 
any member of our race acquiring a knowl- 
edge of sailing or navigation, our cause 
would be put back for a thousand years. 

In spite of all, however, we shall soon 
gain universal industrial supremacy, and our 
country cannot fail to become the workshop 
of the world. We shall become much more 
populous than now, and the laboring classes 
of other nations must decay. In time, as 
the barbarian power, grown opulent and top- 
heavy, becomes torn with dissensions, w^e 
may find an opportunity, even if they crip- 
ple us now, to turn on them suddenly and 
regain our lost advantages. 

We must, however, in case their crude 
minds begin to awake to the realities of our 
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philosophy, exert every power to resist ex-,, 
elusion from their lands, disarmament, and 
exclusion from the seas. 
I To be disarmed in our own defence but 
armed as allies of other nations, and of 
special classes, is a distinct gain to us, be- 
cause it increases the base of our operations 
and plants us in positions from which we 
can never be removed. We are far stronger 
as the sailors and engineers and marines of 
other navies, than we should be having a 
hated and envied navy of our own. 

Considering our physical and tempera- 
mental characteristics, it is always better to 
become an unnoticed but an essential part 
of the institutions of our enemies, than to 
develop rival institutions ; better to become 
the commonplace parts, and perform the 
laborious, but necessary, functions of their 
social organism, than to be a thing apart. 
In this way, we eventually gain all, while 
they compensate their ephemeral existence 
by holding the decorative posts. 

But in order not to suggest to them the 
vital and far-reaching blows that we fear, we 
should appear so far as possible to be guided 
by their motives and passions, apparently 
envying their glory of a day, and thus, by 
swelling their vanity, to increase their blind- 
ness. 

Most humbly yours, 

Li Hung Chang, 
///. Son of Li Hung Chang, 

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Your Excellency : 

The Great Council of Tsi-Nan did not 
enjoy such unanimity of opinion concerning 
any other subject as upon the principle by 
which we are to proceed in the matter of 
race riots, certain to occur periodically in 
the territories in which our more fit Chinese 
laborers are superseding the less fit white 
laborers. 

We must under no circumstances permit 
any member of our race to harbor the slight- 
est ill-feeling toward v/hite capitalists on 
account of any incidental oppressions or 
cruelties practised by them. For the white 
capitalist and investor are the heaven-or- 
daified leaders of our Celestial hosts in their 
irresistible iftvasion of the white lands. 

Fortune-building and its accompanying 
science, political economy, know not blood 
or life, but only things. With the stuffed 
and swollen degenerates who practise the 
black art of political economy, one passion, 
the desire for gold, has swallowed up all 
other passions. 

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Our dealings with these monsters will be 
simple, for, governed by only one motive, 
we can measure it on all occasions, and 
guide our actions on a purely mathemati- 
cal basis. The one desire of these fortune 
builders is for produce which can be ex- 
changed for gold, and the value of the pro- 
ducer is measured by the amount that he 
can produce in excess of his keep. Labor 
is a commodity, a means, and the cheapest 
labor is the best means. No other labor in 
the world can compete with Chinese labor ; 
therefore, all white investors and capitalists, 
so far as they are directed by this black art 
of political economy, prefer Chinese labor 
to any other, and will substitute it for white 
labor as rapidly as possible. 

The white producer, supplanted by the 
yellow producer, although believing in this 
black art, and therefore unwilling to agree 
to any general and far-reaching plan not 
sanctioned by it, will sporadically, when 
pressed by hunger, rebel against his lot and 
do violence to his supplanters. 

Of course, the individual and unorganized 
worker has but to endure hunger and cold 
quietly until he and his progeny are relieved 
by death, but the evil set called trade-union- 
ists, who have the faculty of acting in con- 
cert, and thereby greatly increasing their 
effectiveness, will be the base of all real 
opposition to us. Because of their dense 
ignorance and distaste for general princi- 
ples, large plans, or fundamental ideals, they 

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will never be able to resist our conquering 
march for more than a few years at a time, 
but what opposition we meet will emanate 
from them. As weak and silly as we know 
them to be, they are still the only cham- 
pions of posterity or race interests that exist 
among the white skins. 

Our policy that cannot fail is to embrace 
the opportunity offered us by the fact that 
employers and investors who use white labor 
must necessarily go down before the rival 
who employs Chinese labor. Besides, the 
white laborer of the evil trade-union set, 
although holding no consistent theory, never 
admits that he has no voice in the industry 
or factory that he has helped to build, and 
he is always worrying the master by assert- 
ing claims that suggest his blood relation- 
ship to the master, and negative the master's 
faith that he is a simple commodity or ma- 
chine. No such inconveniences ever occur 
with Chinese labor, so that the employers 
of Chinese labor must supersede those 
who for sentimental reasons refuse to 
govern their actions solely by the laws of 
trade. 

Political economy is the Black Art, 

No white capitalist can survive who does 
not conform to the Black Art, 

To conform to the Black Art necessitates 
the employment of Yellow Labor, 

Yellow Labor and the Black Art will ban- 
ish white from the map of the earth. 

As riots and violence increase, we must 

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prove ourselves utterly devoted to the inter- 
ests of the employer, to such an extent that 
he will eventually arm our laborers to pro- 
tect himself from the violence of the unfit 
and discarded white machines. Let us 
never dispute the division of the product 
with these captains of industry, because all 
that they accumulate is really ours, and will 
eventually be enjoyed by our race. Their 
unheard-of wealth and consequent luxury 
will destroy their sons, and our converted 
coolies will teach the opium habit to their 
daughters, through the intimacies developed 
at Sunday-schools, and when the white la- 
borers have been discarded, starved, scat- 
tered, and reduced in numbers, we will find 
ourselves in possession of the earth with 
only a few effeminate capitalists in our 
way, and these we can massacre in a single 
night. 

The white governments, which exist as in- 
struments to aid fortune building, wholly in 
the hands of fortune builders, will, when 
we cease opposing the demands of avarice, 
defend us with the same avidity that before 
they exerted in destroying us. 

Our chief care shall be devotion to our 
employers and loyalty to their government, 
so that gradually the fortune builder and in- 
vestor will discover, that not only are the 
Chinese their greatest source of profit, but 
also their chief source of defence against 
their envious kindred, who unreasonably re- 
fuse to perish, although in strict accord with 
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the accredited canons of political economy 
and the law of the survival of the fittest. 
Gradually they will arm us and utilize our 
patient and devoted workers in the civil 
wars that v/ill follow, and which will recur 
with constantly increasing frequency and 
augmented violence. 

The white laborers and w^hite soldiers de- 
stroyed in each civil war will be quietly 
replaced during the subsequent peace by 
Chinese. We will profess the name of Jesus 
and the Jehovah of the Jews, and chatter all 
the holy words supplied to us, so that the 
weaklings and degenerates will be our 
staunch friends, and as the decay of their 
civilization proceeds, the number of reac- 
tionaries, weaklings, and degenerates will 
so increase that the friendship of this class 
will be of high value. By harnessing two 
such steeds as avarice and superstition, we 
shall drive our chariot rough-shod over the 
surviving manhood left in this dying race, 
and the Green Dragon, his claws resting 
on the torn flags of Europe, shall seize 
and strangle the screaming American 
Eagle. 

With two such allies, our advance cannot 
be impeded. The paroxysms of the death 
struggle of the so-called white civilization 
will be but one phase of the transfer of their 
social skeleton from their flesh to ours. 

Their science and industries, and such 
institutions as are of utility, we will grad- 
ually acquire, and during the violence of 

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their national and civil wars, by setting their 
profit-mongers against their workers, we w^ill 
first destroy their workers and then the 
capitalists, who, from our constant devotion 
to their cause, will have learnt to believe 
that we regard them with affection. 

Our mode of procedure will be as follovvs : 
In Siberia, the Philippine and Hawaiian 
Islands, South Africa, California, Mexico, 
and South America, v/e w^ill soon form an 
overwhelming majority of the population, 
and our goods will swamp the world's 
markets. Soon the fear of bankruptcy v/ill 
force the capitalists of the South and East- 
ern States of the American Union, of Eng- 
land, Germany, France, and Russia to wel- 
come us and assist us to emigrate to their 
shores. The ranks of their workers will 
have been already reduced by civil wars be- 
tween the classes arising from their ruined 
industries. 

Assassination of kings, presidents, gov- 
ernors, and millionaires, and gigantic strikes 
will destroy the so-called free governments 
of England, America, and France, until a 
militarism under the absolute control of 
the rich will become universal. Their free 
speech and free press will be abolished, and 
riot and assassination on the part of the 
starving will so enrage the masters, that the 
substitution of our peaceful coolies, pro- 
fessing Jesus and chattering maxims, while 
working five hours more each day, and for 
one-fifth the wages of the white skins, will 
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be welcomed by the rich as the end of their 
troubles. 

When they further discover that the Chi- 
nese never riot, strike, or dispute about 
wages, and skilfully handle a gun directed 
under the command of their own faithful 
white officers, they will gladly exchange 
their poor relations for the industrious co- 
operation of our apparently docile myriads. 
During this process revolt will follow revolt, 
and the suppressed and disheartened wage 
slaves, at last deprived of their wages, will 
disappear. They will each year become 
more feeble as a social force, until as a 
hopeless, crushed, and drunken remnant, 
the survivors will gaze from their corners 
and crannies upon our triumphant advance, 
as insects hid in crevices watch the onward 
flight of birds. 

In their civil wars, the white barbarian 
wage slaves will often do bloody work with 
many of our rank and file, but as the surging, 
boiling water with its noise and foam fails 
to resist the deposit of a delta, so their un- 
planned violence will break itself against 
our century and millennial programme, so 
framed that even their violence, like the 
opposing sea winds, assists the progress of 
our sails. 

Therefore your Excellency is enjoined to 
take means to induce all the more promis- 
iiig youths of Kiang-Su, Kiangsi, and Ngan- 
hui to become thoroughly conversant with 
the principles of our philosophy, and the 

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measures agreed upon by the Council, that 
as Sons of Heaven we may work together pur- 
posely and effectively to realize our inheri- 
tance. 

Most humbly yours, 

Li Hung Chang, 

///. Son of Li Hung Chaftg. 



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